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At the 2025 OGP Global Summit, ECNL together with APRI will explore how lobbying laws can be designed to safeguard democratic principles and ensure diverse voices are heard in policy-making.

Grants will support the development of communications of CSOs working on women’s rights, environmental justice and anti-corruption in Bulgaria, Croatia, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia.

Here are the latest developments in European civic space emerging from the Early Warning and Alert System, developed as part of the MACS (Monitoring Action for Civic Space) project.

As the EU develops its Civil Society Strategy, it must embed human rights, civic space and democratic resilience at the core of all of its policies - at home and abroad. Our submission to the EU Call for Evidence sets out how.

In this blog Vanja Skoric and Florian Irminger argue that defending civic space, public participation and human rights must become a core pillar of EU security policy.